Gramercy

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Gramercy lies between Park Avenue South and First Avenue north of 14th Street, with Union Square to the southwest and Stuyvesant Town to the east, and its name derives from the Dutch Krom Moerasje, or little crooked swamp.

  • 0.27 square miles
  • 28,628 residents, 2020 Census
  • 62 street corners
  • 4 subway stations
  • 33 bus routes

In 1832 Samuel B. Ruggles deeded land to trustees for Gramercy Park, a private square opened only by key, with houses rising around it from the 1840s; its historic district was designated in 1966. On Lexington Avenue, the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, built from 1904 to 1906, hosted the 1913 Armory Show, which brought the newest European and American modern art to national attention. Stuyvesant Square and Baruch College are also here.

Sources: Gramercy Park (Wikipedia); Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue (LP-1228, Designation List 164, April 12, 1983) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Gramercy borders four areas, and 3rd Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 13 of 62.

Street map of Gramercy, Manhattan, outlined among Murray Hill-Kips Bay, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, the East Village and Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, with its four subway stations and Stuyvesant Square.Murray Hill-Kips BayStuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper VillageEast VillageMidtown South-Flatiron-Union Square
  • Gramercy
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 28 St lines 6
  • 23 St-Baruch College lines 6 accessible
  • 14 St-Union Sq lines 4 5 6
  • 3 Av lines L

Getting around

Four subway stations and buses on 33 routes stop in or at the edge of Gramercy.

  • 4 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 15 local bus routes
  • 18 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • L92
  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M9
  • M14A-SBS
  • M14D-SBS
  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M23-SBS
  • M34-SBS
  • M34A-SBS
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103

Express bus routes

  • BM1
  • BM2
  • BM3
  • BM4
  • QM63
  • QM64
  • QM68
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM6
  • SIM10
  • SIM11
  • SIM31
  • SIM33C
  • X37
  • X38

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 900 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 14.5 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 1 corner with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 41 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
36
Accessible pedestrian signals
20
Turn calming
11
Enhanced crossings
3
Safety Improvement Projects
2
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more bus-lane camera tickets than school-zone speed or red-light tickets.

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 5,915 school-zone speed camera tickets at eight corners
  • 18,683 bus-lane camera tickets at six corners
Most speed tickets
3rd Avenue & East 16th Street, 1,816
Most bus-lane tickets
East 14th Street & Irving Place, 8,180

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 28,628 residents in Gramercy, about 106,000 per square mile.

  • 17,885 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,194 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 621 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 82% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
5.5 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Stuyvesant Square (4 acres), Peter's Field (0.9 acre) and Augustus St. Gaudens Playground (0.6 acre)
Designated landmarks
The Russell Sage Foundation Building and Annex, the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, the (former) Stuyvesant High School and the Scheffel Hall, among others
Historic districts
East 17th Street / Irving Place, Gramercy Park, Gramercy Park Extension and Stuyvesant Square, wholly or partly within Gramercy

Streets and trees

Trees
1,381 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and London planetree
Street with the most corners
3rd Avenue, with 13 of the area's 62
Height above sea level
From 12 feet at 1st Avenue & East 22nd Street to 44 feet at East 15th Street & Union Square East
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 20 schools and one library in Gramercy.

Public schools
15
Charter and private schools
5
Library
Epiphany Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, ten bike-share stations stand in Gramercy. The City's public art inventory lists three works in the area: Washington Irving Memorial (1885), Peter Stuyvesant (1941) and Antonin Dvorak (1997).

  • 10 bike-share stations
  • 3 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 242 major felonies at places in Gramercy.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Gramercy

  • 220 major felonies in 2024
  • 707 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Gramercy, the NYPD recorded another 386 major felonies.

Map of Gramercy: 5 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Gramercy, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Gramercy, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Gramercy are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Gramercy and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
13th
Major felonies recorded at places in Gramercy, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 124 major felonies at places in Gramercy, against 123 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.